Page 288 of Dawn of Chaos and Fury
“Who? Anala?”
She shook her head, golden strands swaying. “Tessa. I can feel her fury.”
Xan’s eyes flicked to her, and Tessa stared back, expressionless. She wasn’t entirely sure what was happening here.
“Were you followed?” Tessa asked sharply, and Xan frowned, but she didn’t care. “Did someone follow you through the portal?”
“We would have seen them, Tessa,” Xan replied.
“You don’t know that,” she argued. “Phantoms could slip through, and you cannot tell me gods cannot be invisible if they choose.”
“She is wise,” Akira murmured. Tessa watched her shoulders rise with another deep inhale before she turned once more to face her. “No one followed me, Tessa.”
“Where were you?”
“Locked in his world with nowhere to go.”
“This whole time?” Tessa demanded.
“For decades.”
“Was I born there?”
“No.”
Tessa nodded, her fingers curling into her palms as she started pacing.
Until Luka pulled her into him, and Theon slid a palm down her hair.
Akira’s eyes narrowed in interest. “Who are they?”
But Tessa didn’t answer as her power twisted in her soul, mirroring her conflicting emotions.
“They are her balance, Akira,” Xan said softly.
“Two?”
Xan smiled. “She is the daughter of wild and Fury. She requires two to balance her. The Fates delivered.”
“The Fates did shit,” Tessa snapped, shaking off the males. She felt steadier, drawing from their possession.
Akira hummed. “Which ones did you meet?”
“What?”
“Which Fates? Some are more palatable than others,” Akira clarified.
“I didn’t… You’ve met the Fates?”
“You haven’t?”
“This conversation is going around in circles,” Theon grumbled, and Tessa sent him a dry look over her shoulder.
She should feel something, right? Some kind of familial connection? Some kind of…something.
“The fuck?” Luka barked when Akira suddenly jumped forward a step. Tessa once again found herself being dragged back.
“Do you like stories?” Akira asked, her hands clasped under her chin and face full of hope as she held Tessa’s stare.
